CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16368

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability leads to a stack-based buffer overflow condition in the internal Unicode string manipulation module. It is triggered by an invalid PDF file, where a crafted Unicode string causes an out of bounds memory access of a stack allocated buffer, due to improper checks when manipulating an offset of a pointer to the buffer. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability and achieve arbitrary code execution if they can effectively control the accessible memory.

Affected configurations

• adobe acrobat (<= 11.0.22) • adobe acrobat (>= 17.0 <= 17.011.30066) • adobe acrobat dc (>= - <= 17.012.20098) • adobe acrobat dc (>= 15.0 <= 15.006.30355) • adobe acrobat reader (<= 11.0.22) • adobe acrobat reader (>= 17.0 <= 17.011.30066) • adobe acrobat reader dc (>= - <= 17.012.20098) • adobe acrobat reader dc (>= 15.0 <= 15.006.30355)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References